"If you want to change the world, help the women."

-- Nelson Mandela

#Want Quotes #World Quotes #Changing The World Quotes

“It's easy to get caught up in how our figures look when we stand naked in front of the mirror. But we must remember that we are more than how we look. We are not ***** who happen to have hearts, minds, and souls; rather, we are souls that just happen to have mounds of flesh protruding from our chests.”
“The meaning of life cannot be told; it has to HAPPEN to a person.”
“I think there's some connection between absolute discipline and absolute freedom.”
“Tragedy is that our attention centers on what people are not, rather than on what they are and who they might become.”
“The best education you will ever get is traveling. Nothing teaches you more than exploring the world and accumulating experiences.”
“We form cities in order to enhance interaction, to facilitate growth, wealth creation, ideas, innovation, but in so doing, we create from - from a physicist's viewpoint, entropy, meaning all of those bad things that we feel are engulfing us.”

Source : "What Does Nature Teach Us About Cities?". "TED Radio Hour" with Alison Stewart, www.npr.org. June 11, 2012.
“The beauty of jazz is that it's malleable. People are addressing it to suit their own personalities.”
“Freedom is not merely the opportunity to do as one pleases; neither is it merely the opportunity to choose between set alternatives. Freedom is, first of all, the chance to formulate the available choices, to argue over them -- and then, the opportunity to choose.”

Source : C. Wright Mills (2000). “The Sociological Imagination”, p.174, Oxford University Press

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